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Snake man hid friendship with porn star

A SCOTS businessman who died after buying a shipment of deadly snakes over the internet during a trip to America was involved in a close friendship with a transsexual porn star.

Garrick Wales, a 48-year-old IT consultant with three children, led a bizarre double life, indulging his fascination with deadly snakes and an intimate relationship with Joanna Jet, a “she-male” former computer programmer who stars in hard core pornographic videos and runs an adult website.

Earlier this month Wales spent a week in Paris with Jet before flying to America, apparently on business.

His body was later found in a rental car near an airport at Little Rock, Arkansas, while a box of snakes, including a black mamba, forest cobra, green mamba and twig snake, was discovered less than a mile away.

Police initially thought he might have been attacked by one of the reptiles, which he bought from a